Flexibility in Bilingual Infants' Word Learning

Autor/inn/en	Graf Estes, Katharine; Hay, Jessica F.
Titel	Flexibility in Bilingual Infants' Word Learning
Quelle	In: Child Development, 86 (2015) 5, S.1371-1385 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.12392
Schlagwörter	Bilingualism; Infants; Language Usage; Environmental Influences; Toddlers; Native Language; Language Acquisition; Monolingualism; Intonation; Suprasegmentals + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bilingualismus; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Sprachgebrauch; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Infants; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb
Abstract	The present experiments tested bilingual infants' developmental narrowing for the interpretation of sounds that form words. These studies addressed how language specialization proceeds when the environment provides varied and divergent input. Experiment 1 (N = 32) demonstrated that bilingual 14- and 19-month-olds learned a pair of object labels consisting of the same syllable produced with distinct pitch contours (rising and falling). Infants' native languages did not use pitch contour to differentiate words. In Experiment 2 (N = 16), 22-month-old bilinguals failed to learn the labels. These results conflict with the developmental trajectory of monolinguals, who fail to learn pitch contour contrasts as labels at 17-19 months (Hay, Graf Estes, Wang, & Saffran, 2015). Bilingual infants exhibited a prolonged period of flexibility in their interpretation of potential word forms. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01